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[–] eronth@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't grind anything basically the same way a treadmill doesn't sand anything. You're not forcing anything to stay put on the surface, you're maneuvering on the surface while the surface is counter-moving you.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

MKBHD's video shows it moving him around on a chair, spinning the chair, etc etc. In the closeup shots, it looks like there's debris on the surface of the cone thingies:

The debris isn't uniform and is quite obviously not part of the roller material; I just kind of assumed that it was from stuff they'd been testing on it, though I suppose it could be generic workshop crud that fell on the rollers too 🤷

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

There's probably very minimal sliding against that surface. From the point of view of each point of contact, it's mostly static friction, with very little dynamic friction/slippage.